A World War II recruitment film bulletin 'Wanted: Men for Merchant Marine' asking men to join the United States Merchant Marines and go aboard Liberty Ships and other cargo ships supporting the United States war effort during World War 2. A World War II American ship convoy at sea. An official works in Ship Personnel Office aboard a ship. Merchant seamen board a ship. A group of engineers, seamen, radio telegraphers, cooks, bakers and mess men during a training. Supplies are loaded onto a ship. Tanks, bombs and locomotive are hoisted by a crane and loaded onto the ship. Seamen work aboard the ships. Narrator speaks of military materiel delivered by ships and a series of images of American military equipment in action in Europe during World War 2 is shown: Line of camouflage U.S. army tanks fire. U.S. Army Air Force bomber aircraft at an airfield including one with a damaged nose. U.S. Army tractor hauls a long artillery piece on war torn streets of a European city. U.S. Army tank moving by fast on a European paved roadway. A merchant ship at sea. A ship convoy at sea.
Merchant Marine Officer candidates learn seamanship at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA ) in New York, United States. Views of Long Island. Boats anchored in a harbor. The candidates study at a table. They eat. Candidates enter into the Bowditch Hall. A manual of ship construction is read. An officer teaches principles of stability to a class. The candidates learn on a ship model. They look through an equipment. In a class a candidate looks through an equipment and writes on a blackboard. The candidates work on huge sheets with a geometric compass and a scale. They operate a meteorology instrument and note readings. Views of 'Certificate of Registry' and 'Certificate of Inspection'.
Opening scene shows an animated map of the United States and its inland waterways. An extremely long barge assembly is seen moving along a waterway, with industrial plant on shore in background. Another view of barges being pushed, View from a ship passing a city skyline. A Coast Guard ship passing an inland passenger ship in icy waters. View from bow of the Coast Guard ship moving through the ice. he U.S. Coast Guard side paddlewheel river tender, "Willow" is seen docked on the Mississippi River. Black smoke is rising from one of her funnels. A team of men works at a river bank, installing an aid to navigation. View of another such aid. A Coast Guard riverboat for installing and maintaining navigation aids, moving on a river. Closeup of a Coastguardsman wearing flotation vest, on deck. A buoy being raised by a crane on the ship. Glimpse of a buoy floating in the water. A new buoy being lowered from the ship into the water. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching as the buoy is set in place. View from deck of ship as the buoy is lowered overboard. Aerial view of a lighthouse. View of lighthouse from ground nearby. Glimpse of a Coast Guard station on a sandy shore. A Coast Guard boathouse with three rescue dories visible inside. A pontoon equipped Coast Guard helicopter taking off from a moving ship.
A large commercial freighter is seen beached and a long boat, containing a dozen or more Coastguardsmen, is pulling away from it. Next the men are seen running across the sand pulling a line from the ship. Closeup of two Coast Guard officers watching from ashore. . A seaman from the ship is transported via a bosun's chair to the shore. A group of Coastguardsmen weigh the taut rescue line down so the seaman can get out of the rig. View of a Coast Guard navigator at a table with a chart. A pair of dividers and a course plotter (plus his hat) are on the chart, which displays isobars. View from deck of a Coast Guard ship making way in rough seas. An anemometer rotating on the ship. Coast Guard crewman taking barometric pressure and other meteorological readings from instruments on the ship. Another, wearing a headset, monitors a real time chart being created from instruments on the ship. View from bow of Coast Guard ship engaged in International Ice Patrol, which charts and tracks icebergs to warn ships. Coast Guard crew member marking locations on a map. View of an iceberg. .
Belgian troops on Kamina airfield in Republic of Congo. U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft behind them, raising dust with engines running. Belgian officers talk with a U.S. Air Force photographer. A U.S. Air Force Captain at flight planning table with several Belgian officers. Supplies being unloaded from C-130 aircraft. A truck moves away from the plane. Belgian Army scout cars drive across ramp and troops get down. U.S. Air Force Colonel Clayton M.Isaacson stands with an Air Force Captain and a photographer as they watch the C-130 commence its takeoff. The C-130 begins takeoff, raising dust. A Belgian soldier, with machine gun watches. The Aircraft makes long takeoff roll and barely clears trees at end of the airstrip.
View inside cockpit of a U.S. Air Force C-13OE plane in flight approaching Ascension Island. Pilot's hands on throttles. Plan position radar in cockpit. The crew makes long straight in approach to runway and lands. Plane taxis along the runway.
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